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• My understanding of negative rights is that they necessarily do not conflict with one another. Any thoughts? - Brer_Vole Jan 26 2006
• What would a list of negative rights be? (The list of positive rights seem endless....) - Brer_Vole Jan 26 2006

Hystricidae21 this is where the talk page is FYI. It sounds like you might have something to contribute to the article with this difference between different thinkers' comprehensive ways of formulating the distinction between positive and negative rights, but repeatedly sweeping through and just displacing the whole lede with your poorly-written essay on the topic is not the right way to do it. Please read WP:BRD, it is Wikipedia policy. --Pfhorrest (talk) 06:49, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]